Particle Theory Seminars
Spring 2011
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed Jan 26 | David Simmons-Duffin | Harvard | Bounds on 4D Conformal and Superconformal Field Theories (pdf) |
| Wed June 1 | Joachim Kopp | Fermilab | Mößbauer neutrinos and the quantum theory of neutrino oscillations (pdf) |
| Fri Jan 28 | Ben Heidenreich | Cornell | Towards a local model of Kähler moduli stabilization (pdf) |
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| Fri Feb 4 | Flip Tanedo | Cornell | Warped Penguins: The Empire Strikes Back (pdf) |
| Wed Feb 9 | Daniel Baumann | IAS | Inflating with Baryons (pdf) |
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| Fri Feb 18 438 PSB | Yuval Grossman | Cornell | Non-standard neutrino interactions (whiteboard talk) |
| Wed Feb 23 | Josh Erlich | William-Mary | The Phase Diagram of Holographic QCD (pdf) |
| Fri Feb 25 | Bibhushan Shakya | Cornell | Interpreting Indirect Signatures of Dark Matter (pdf) |
| Wed Mar 2 | Tracy Slatyer | IAS | Double Bubble Trouble: Mysterious Extended Gamma-Ray Structures in the Milky Way (pdf) |
| Fri Mar 4 | Clifford Cheung | Berkeley | Collider Probes of Dark Matter Genesis (pdf) |
| Thu 2pm Mar 10 | Matthias Neubert | Mainz | High-precision predictions for Higgs and top-quark pair production at hadron colliders (pdf) |
| Fri Mar 11 1:30 pm in 438 |
Cliff Burgess | McMaster U. & Perimeter Inst. | Brane back-reaction, large volumes and small curvatures (blackboard talk) |
| Wed Mar 16 | John Terning | UC Davis | Nonlinear Boundary Conditions and Unitarity |
| Fri Mar 18 | Tomas Rube | Stanford | Supersymmetric bound states (pdf) |
| Wed Mar 30 | Enrico Lunghi | Indiana U | Lessons for New Physics from CKM studies (pdf) |
| Fri Apr 1 | Jing Shao | Syracuse | SUSY Digs Up a Buried Higgs |
| Wed Apr 6 | JiJi Fan | Princeton | Renormalized CFT/Effective AdS (pdf) |
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| Wed Apr 13 | Mariangela Lisanti | Princeton | cancelled -- postponed to fall 2011 |
| Fri Apr 15 | Timothy Cohen | Michigan | On-shell constructibility of tree amplitudes in general field theories |
| Wed Apr 20 | A. Liam Fitzpatrick | Boston U. | Effective Conformal Theories and Model-Building |
| Fri Apr 22 | Scott Watson | Michigan U. & Syracuse U. | The Cosmological Moduli Problem - Revisited (pdf) |
| Wed Apr 27 | Paul McGuirk | U. Wisconsin, Madison | Chiral matter wavefunctions in warped compactifications (pdf) |
| Fri Apr 29 | Daniel Stolarski | Maryland | The Bestest Little Higgs |
| Wed May 4 | Bogdan Dobrescu | Fermilab | Color-octet particles and the CDF dijet excess |
| Fri May 6 | Thomas Grimm | MPI Munich | The N=1 effective action of F-theory on Calabi-Yau fourfolds |
| Wed May 11 | Thomas Faulkner | KITP | Quantum phase transitions in holographic models of strongly correlated systems (pdf) |
| Fri May 13 | Josh Berger | Cornell | A new CP violating observable for the LHC |
| Fri May 20 | Iñaki García Etxebarria | University of Pennsylvania | Global models for branes at singularities |